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Had the same problem recently was given a tonne of ancient Perl scripts to 'update' - took about an hour of looking at them to realise there wasn't any point in touching them, started from scratch instead

Unfortunatley they wudn't let me rewrite them in PHP, basically cos the guy who maintained them cudnt be arsed to upgrade any of his skill sets. Whats even more annoying is he is the technical director of a division in a very big IT company. A. why is he maintaing the scripts anyway, isn;t he supposed to be provding technical support to projects? B. he had never come accross OOP (so how can he be technical dorector?)

damn smelly company. (I won't mention its name... for now lol)

Laws are like sausages. You have much more respect for them if you haven't actually seen how they're made.